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Trenton Doyle Hancock
Since 1998 artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has been chronicling an ongoing saga of the Mounds – half animal, half plant mythical creatures that are the harmless protagonist at the center of the artist’s unfolding narrative. The sly and crafty Vegans are the antagonist, reeking havoc on the Mounds at every turn. With sources that range from super-hero comics and the Bible, Hancock mixes metaphors of Creation, procreation and mere creativity in visually immersive paintings, drawings, hand lettered wall texts, prints and sculptures. Though each new work created is an addition to the story of the Mounds, Hancock’s work also reveals an allegiance to the history of painting, especially to the formal inventiveness of Abstract Expressionism where traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern—for Hancock become opportunities to invent new characters and develop sub-plots.
Hancock has been included in numerous prestigious group exhibitions that have included the 2003 Lyon Biennale, the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and in 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, becoming one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Hancock has received numerous awards including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Penny McCall Foundation Award, Joyce Foundation Award, Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, and Artadia Foundation Award.
In his collaborative efforts with Graphicstudio, Hancock has produced Vegan Arm, a 10-foot sculptural arm of a Vegan clutching a bucket of a cast version of pepto bismol, the artist’s chosen material to represent “Mound Meat”. For the production of this piece Graphicstudio worked with Walla Walla Foundry to transform the artist’s original sculptural arm modeled out of modeling clay into the 10-foot cast resin sculpture. Vegan Arm was debuted at Hancock’s most recent exhibition at James Cohan Gallery in March 2006.
Links to other sites related to the artist:
PBS: Trenton Doyle Hancock
UsInfo: Trenton Doyle Hancock
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